Monday and the mess tent
Got out and about today with the first stop being Tractor Supply Co, (TSC). The first thing I saw after walking through the door was the 8 inch flue pipe and elbows on sale for 15% off. Filled a buggy with 4 2 ft sticks and 2 adjustable elbows and left it up front. Went to the back where the 10 x 20 shelters were supposed to be only to find none there. Went to the back hallway where they keep some of the heavy overstock and there were 12 x 20’s there but not what we needed. Ask a stock person and they pointed us to the last 2 they had in stock. Got those on the feed cart, paid and headed into Anniston to pay bills. Finished, went to China Star in Jacksonville for lunch, stopped and got some milk, and went to my folks house to pick up some stuff they had for us, then came home.
Took one of the shelters to the kitchen tent and set it up in line with it. We now have a 40 foot long mess hall. Took some pallets and laid down in the kitchen area and screwed osb to them to make a 8 x 10 foot raised platform to do the cooking and serving from. Turned the long metal table across the tent in the middle and it will work for a serving/work counter. Will move the side wall covering that is facing the creek to the other side of the new shelter and then cover the entire creek side 40 foot wall with a piece of 6.5 foot high by 40 foot long canvas from an old SCA pavilion. Should fit perfectly. 😀
Got the fridge and foot lockers of food and assorted kitchen kit moved in after getting the floor in. Gathered a batch of old tarps and plastic and covered the ground in the front half of the kitchen tent then moved a 8 by 10 rug in for them to stand on. Makes it a bit nicer. Will make another table 8 feet long to go in there. Should finish it off nicely.
Darkness fell, Tim, Mary and Bill went their separate ways and we went to the house for dinner. Supper got fixed and finished. Then tie down materials, stakes, hammer, ladder located and loaded into the truck and Cat and I went down and staked down the new shelter. Put up another drop light in the top of the kitchen area, and looked at things a bit longer then came back up here and proceeded to recount the days progress.
Tomorrow will hopefully see the assembly of the other shelter and staking down of the same just west of the barn where the framework of a previous structure is standing or across the drive from it. Will have to see when the time comes. But where ever it goes it WILL be put up so I have a dry place to work on whatever I need to work on at the time. Also gonna start moving the wood burning heater tomorrow. May not get the completely done tomorrow but will get the area prepped and some of the mounting built outside. Gonna use the triple wall and thimble to go through the wall and use single wall inside and out. Hope I have enough but if not TSC is not that far away. 😎
Tired and need to see about the fire so am gonna close for the night. Till I type again…
Themocracy
Not as productive a day for me as for you. Went this morning first thing and did the fasting tests for the doctor, and then picked up some breakfast. Did most of my doings at the workbuilding today, some stuff out and about at the elementary school. Kind of a Monday. Went home and got the new (sort-of) computer booted up and ran a memtest, that went OK, but the mondo video card that Aaron put in for me was more than PCLinuxOS could handle. I can take it out, now that we figured out (or Aaron did) that the memory needed to be in adjacent slots, but it’s late and I’m just not up to it. I think I am becoming a little orange around the edges, and will go ahead and pumpkinate.